Given name & surname
Wladimir
Wladimir is a masculine given name from German. It is used in English, German, and Dutch.
Original GermanWaldemar
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1981. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wladimir through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 11 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 324 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wladimir’s family of names
In German usage, Wladimir shares an earlier linguistic root with Waldemar. In Dutch usage, Wladimir has a conventional equivalent in the English form Vladimir. In German usage, Wladimir has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Włodzimierz.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Wladimir has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its German roots to each of them.
Germanwhere Wladimir comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 7
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Wladimir
- Wladimir KöppenGerman meteorologist (1846–1940)2015–1940
- Wladimir Balentienbaseball playerborn 1984
- Vladimir ArkadievRussian physicist1884–1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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